Sliced Diced and Mashed/Not All Girls

Not All Girls!

And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.

But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

                                                                                                           

                                 …Leviticus 26:44-45

         While watching a Garfield movie with our grandsons, seven year old Jordan watching with anticipation and the museum owner moved down the highly decorated family photos expressing once again the importance of family, “Don’t forget, these sire, your ancestors of over 400 years!”

            Jordan pops up with, “There were boys too!—There weren’t just girls in those pictures!”  We looked at him as if to say “what?” Jordan then repeated back to us what he understood the butler to say. He thought him to say, “These are your Aunt-sisters of over 400 years.” This actually shows what a thinker and observer he is.  Even he knew, to have a family tree, there must be a man and a woman involved, not just aunts and sisters. Now I can’t say much for his hearing.

            Jordan actually understood a basic truth that many adults don’t get.  How do we think we have ancestors?  Maybe not all we are proud of, but all had to have a mother and father, or male and female to be here today.  How can we expect God’s blessing on us as a nation, when we have turned to our own ways.  We are doing just as Israel had done so many times …did that which was right in their own eyes.

            Jordan misunderstood what was said in the Garfield movie, but Scripture is very clear in what God expects from our behavior.  If we carry the name of Christ to the next generation, then we will have something to write home about, when we look down the halls of our ancestors.  Remember it is not aunt-sisters, or uncle-brothers, it is honor thy Father and thy Mother, to have the correct ancestors.  Of course, you ancestors may not be from the prestigious Garfield line or feline!